A model of student's dilemma
arXiv:cond-mat/0410594 · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2005.03.009
Abstract
Each year perhaps millions of young people face the following dilemma: should I continue my education or rather start working with already acquired skills. Right decision must take into account somebody's own abilities, accessibility to education institutions, competition, and potential benefits. A multi-agent, evolutionary model of this dilemma predicts a transition between stratified and homogeneous phases, evolution that diminishes fitness, fewer applicants per seat for decreased capacity of the university, and presence of poor students at élite universities.
arXiv comment4 pages, minor changes, accepted in Physica A